The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-02-24
Our Home Folks In the South and West.

it is welcome visitor to all of the Waldo county
settlers who have homes in this far away country,
and quite a number have staked out their claim
and intend to camp until they make stake. Mr.
Thomas b. IIussey is spending the winter at the
ranch of his sonna Chas. Severance He is
hale and hearty and steps around lively as
many of the young men. About two weeks since
a gentle blizzard came along ON its way to Dakota
and started quite a number of bands of sheep i'll
that direction, but the faithful herers and their
dogs remained with the sheep all ngbt and next
day it cleared away and the bands got home
Among the youthful herders who camped with
their bands We're Johnnie Webber and David
Craig. They are only IL years of age, and are
pilgrims, but they stood it like old timers. Jack
Frost caught them little their cheeks, but
otherwise they were all right. .he boys say: eco
west young man. but don't herd Sheep
+. }. Morrison is doing good business in the
thriving town of Philbrook. George Stone stands
behind the counter and is ready to sell you any
thing from a needle to mule train. Charlie
Cleary lives few MILES from Philbrook. He ha.
a first class sheep ranch and lots of sheep and |
am glad to say is making success of the business
Charlie is good ruster and is sure to win The
farmers think they will be able to plough next
month, but if they do il will be snow. Apples are
worth 500 per barrel, and hard to get at that
price. Cider, p cents per glass and they look to
me like small glasses too. oh for a camp in some
far away New England farmers cellar
san Francisco subscriber writes under date
Feb. j: 1--WE are having severe snow storm. 1t
has been showing since before daylight and it Is
now ii A. Nj, and showing very hard. Allowing
for what has melted, some ten inches have fallen
b.
yesterday and far into the night when the wind
changed to northwest and it became very cold At
sunrise the mercury indicated - above and bar
ometer 300. The shade trees and telegraph wires
are suffering. one large tree in front of my house
| is entirely ruined by the weight of snow. At
noon there is no indication of the storm ceasng
and no doubt it will cause much damage.
The lines of Col, Pho Herscy and family, for
| merly of Belfast have fallen in pleasant places
Judging from the photographs of their home in
santa Clara California; recently received here by
relatives. one photograph gives a front view of Il
two story house, with bay window beside the en-
trance and Il vcr;lnlah extending from over the
front door along the side To projection of the
main building, in which is another bay window
The house is modern in STYLE with inside blinds
and presents very attractive appearance. In this
picture Col. 1lcr>ey is standing in the open door,
Mrs. lier-ey is seated in the porch and the sons
Ralph and Edward, are seated on the front steps
There are trees about the house The second pie
turc is side Vicw showing windmill in rear of
the house and beyond commo,ous barn and a
two horse team harnessed to a wagon The fam
lily are all out of doors in front of the house. the
Youngest holding the heal of a fine looking
| horse The ground about the house seems to have
been ploughed and narrowed for cultivation, and
rows of stakes would indicate that grapes are to
hc the crop. When Col IIersey went to California
he took material To build Il house, but arrival
exchanged his land for one With buildings and
fruit trees well advanced His home is one-eighth
of Il mile from Mr.. Goodennugh. The Alta Cali
fornia of recent date has something say of this
region which indicates that Col IIersey in locating
himself here has chosen wisely. Santa Clara is
but three miles from san Jose, of which the Alta
says "san jose has already Il larger local trade
| than Oakland, atte>tcd by its crowded street.
ANA stores, and it should make a city of 5o,ooo
people within live sin wears, provided its people
make good of the wide spread repute the city
| has by some means gained in the East" And
| further,
| Santa Clara County, in the range of it, pro,luc
| on-, is not easily cNcrllcd by any in the state
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f., seed r;isin,r .ud thr fame f its yuny.r,Iu h,s
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